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the only reminder of the tent city where they found their first home in america is the hand of s culpture. none of them complained about their new homeland however none of them hesitated when asked if they would go back to vietnam. this man was 10 years old when brought to camp pendelton in 1975. he has since became a u.s. marine in hopes he will one day go home to help liberate his country. >> being a marine is the first -- i was hoping i could go back to vietnam in battle one day. >> do you miss vietnam? >> yes i do. >> reporter: why? >> my childhood over there. because i spent 10 years of my childhood there. and it was a lot of fun. >> reporter: debra shaw reporting in san diego. >>> still to come on a second look -- >> we had no idea that it would end up like this we didn't know where they were going. who was going to adopt them. >> reporter: rescued from vietnam at the end of the war and adopted in america and other countries. 30 years later they return to the land of their birth. >>> and a bay area reporter remembers the day saigon fell and what it took for him to get out safely. >>
the only reminder of the tent city where they found their first home in america is the hand of s culpture. none of them complained about their new homeland however none of them hesitated when asked if they would go back to vietnam. this man was 10 years old when brought to camp pendelton in 1975. he has since became a u.s. marine in hopes he will one day go home to help liberate his country. >> being a marine is the first -- i was hoping i could go back to vietnam in battle one day....
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he was clearly dead. >> reporter: as feinstein was trying to calm the city, police went to white's home where for days he had been holed up alone in a sleeping bag poring over these newspaper clips about his resignation opposing his reappointment a photo of his dead father. >> dan white wasn't able to handle it. in my opinion he never belonged in city hall, white's defense attorney says dan white was asik man and revealed his wife made him see a psychiatrist a few weeks before he killed himself. >> as i recall he had started medication for depression weeks before. that may have lifted him enough so that he had the energy to take steps to end his own life. >> reporter: doug schmidt believes the medication caused white to finally see clearly what he had done and he couldn't live with it. on october 21st, 1985 he turned his car into a gas chamber in the garage of his home and sentenced himself to death. >>> when we come back on a second look, rita's interview with the mother of kevin collins. and a bit later the pope came to san francisco and rita williams was there. . >>> tonight on a sec
he was clearly dead. >> reporter: as feinstein was trying to calm the city, police went to white's home where for days he had been holed up alone in a sleeping bag poring over these newspaper clips about his resignation opposing his reappointment a photo of his dead father. >> dan white wasn't able to handle it. in my opinion he never belonged in city hall, white's defense attorney says dan white was asik man and revealed his wife made him see a psychiatrist a few weeks before he...
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the clothes can white wore when he crawled through a window of city hall, a 32 stuck in his belt. the gun white used was gone, this court order called for its destruction in 1982. >> it became a manhole cover: >> this is the original letter white sent the mayor three weeks earlier, resigning from the board of supervisors. saying he could not support his family on $9600 a year. he changed his mind and asked for his job back after mayor george mosconi told white he was appointing someone else he led him into his room. here he poured two drinks from these bottles of liquor into these glasses then he lit the cigarette as he tried to calm him, asking about his wife and son. >> it was just like that and then i -- and then he just -- he came to me and then that was it and i -- i just shot him. >> when mosconi's body was found the cigarette was still burning. white then raced down the hall to harvey milk's office. >> i saw him come in and i said, dan, can i talk to you and he went by. i opened the door, i found harvey on his stomach, i tried to get a pulse and put my finger through a bull
the clothes can white wore when he crawled through a window of city hall, a 32 stuck in his belt. the gun white used was gone, this court order called for its destruction in 1982. >> it became a manhole cover: >> this is the original letter white sent the mayor three weeks earlier, resigning from the board of supervisors. saying he could not support his family on $9600 a year. he changed his mind and asked for his job back after mayor george mosconi told white he was appointing...
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they faced the city of san francisco but more importantly, they faced the mouth of the golden gate. from here, alcatraz was the strong point of something known then as the triangle of death. at one leg of the triangle layed four point, guarding the entrance to the bay. alcatraz with its 105 guns was the center point for symmetrical reasons. any ironclad ship could have reduced fortifications to rubble. they apparently couldn't hit anything not even a ship at anchor during a holiday celebration. >> in 1876 when america celebrated its centennial they towed an old ship to bay and they began firing at it from all these forts. fort point, fort mason. and from marin and they finally weren't hitting the ship. they had to go out and set up hughes. in front of this huge crowd it blew up and looked quite impressive. but the tacticians found out they weren't doing a very good job against this floating target that was not going any where. >> reporter: if alcatraz missed as a fortress. somebody always thought it would make a dandy prison. in 1853, alcatraz was a gently sloping lump in the middle
they faced the city of san francisco but more importantly, they faced the mouth of the golden gate. from here, alcatraz was the strong point of something known then as the triangle of death. at one leg of the triangle layed four point, guarding the entrance to the bay. alcatraz with its 105 guns was the center point for symmetrical reasons. any ironclad ship could have reduced fortifications to rubble. they apparently couldn't hit anything not even a ship at anchor during a holiday celebration....